It just doesn't end. Every company John has run has been a financial disaster. We should demand John turns over the tax returns for Giant Spacekat.
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Y'know. We've been predicting this was going to happen since
Eric the robot in 1928 and it could easily be argued that Automata from as far back as the 16th century have been part of the pipe dream.
The fact is though... I don't buy it. Like, at all. The level of automation that a lot of companies say are going to be possible in 30-40 years are also the same assholes who promised me a flying car by 2000 and hoverboards by 2015.
On top of that, nobody's going to be around to fix stuff when they inevitably fuck up, or will have something unexpected to happen. Which does happen in factories. Frequently.
You only need to look at the car industry, easily the most automated in the world, to see where this is going and why it won't result in job devastation as everyone keeps predicting. Humans are still required for nearly all interior work, and other "finicky" jobs when the car industry has had some
fifty five years since the introduction of industrial robots to fix this problem and guess what?
They actually tried to do all this shit with robots and have been trying to for
decades and the end result? Garbage. Absolute garbage that isn't as well fitted, reliable, or even as
desirable as something where human hands have touched it.
Indeed, some companies are now going in the exact opposite direction with sections of their brand.
Jaguar Landrover continue to build their engines by hand in Wales because they're superior. Nissan's GTR resulted in hand built engines within sealed environments which is now spreading out into their wider brand of higher end vehicles.
Bentley's cars shapes and interiors are so complicated that they do all the work by hand because the robots cannot cope with the complicated welding and stitching patterns.
